Run results for: className vs setAttribute vs classList

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.157 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 74

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="foo"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var element = document.getElementById('foo');

Tests:

className
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.className = "bar"; }
setAttribute
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.setAttribute("class", "bar"); }
classList
var i = 1000; while (i--) { element.classList.add("bar"); }